Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has e...
Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianit...
I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consci...
In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—t...
As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream...
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
